Interests in Chapter 6

The most interesting part of chapter 6 was the different modes of communication.  I was very interested to see how some of the modes were so similar, yet so different at the same time.  The mode that interested me the most was the hearing and seeing mode.  I never really thought about the fact that you picture someone talking even if you are only talking to them over the phone.  I realized that I often do that too without even knowing it.  I also think that the hearing and seeing mode is the most important because it incorporates to senses while communicating.  I feel that an audience would understand the information that was being said if they could see and hear someone while the information was being taught or given.

            Another thing that made me like the hearing and seeing mode the most was the fact that you don’t really need any formal education to use that mode of communicating.  The only reason you would need formal education in it would be as stated in the book, “for contexts like public speaking, and for alert group communication”.  Unless your career entitled you to speak in front of people often, you wouldn’t really need a formal education in using this form of communicating.  I also feel that I respond the best when communicating while hearing and seeing.  I am a visual learner so being able to see someone while they are talking will help me remember the information better.

Modes of Communication Workshops:

http://www.staff.vu.edu.au/fmiunit4/fmi2/workshop1.html

The Cleaning Up of Illegal Signs

When you drive down streets in San Jose, you often see loose signs hanging on light poles and street signs.  What you may not know is that it is illegal.  It is illegal to hang signs advertising things such as garage sales on the city’s property.  No matter what the message is that the poster is trying to get across, it is still not acceptable.  The problem isn’t so much of people hanging them up, but the fact that not everyone picks them up after.  When no one picks the signs up, they end up just hanging there until they eventually blow off, which then causes there to be more trash on the streets.  One other problem that often happens after people hang signs are that the staples or tacks still remain on the city’s property.  This forces the city to make unnecessary repairs that wouldn’t have to be made if no one hung signs in the first place.

This is another potential topic for my research paper because it is a big issue in San Jose.  There are signs hanging on the city’s property everywhere you look.  Then the signs end up blowing off and end up littering the streets.  We are trying to make San Jose a cleaner city and this isn’t helping.  It is also illegal to hang signs, which makes it even worse.  This is a topic that we may be hearing more and more about to make more people aware of the problem and encourage them to help clean up the city of San Jose.

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